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Bingham Bulletin | 1918-03-08 | Page 3 | Tobacco Impoverishes Solf

Type issue
Date 1918-03-08
Paper Bingham Bulletin
Language eng
City Bingham Canyon
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Tobacco Impoverishes Solf
Type article
Date 1918-03-08
Paper Bingham Bulletin
Language eng
City Bingham Canyon
County Salt Lake
Page 3
OCR Text Tobacco Impoverishes Soil. It hns been calculated that a ton ol tobacco withdraws more than a hun-dredweltfht hun-dredweltfht of mineral constituents from on ucre of laud. This would appear ap-pear to be an ustoundlng waste of ma-terlul, ma-terlul, which must be of enormous value to the soil, considering thnt 78 per cent consists of calcium and potns-slum potns-slum snlt and 13 per cent of nmg ncshim unci sodium srOts, including nearly 5 per cent of the ess(n1i:il con Ul'"t'! t to till plants phosphoric ucl 1
Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kq22mp/44117